The brain has a nasty habit of playing tricks on your when trying to remember something from your past – a phenomenon we experienced playing the opening minutes of the Metal Gear Solid HD collection. Arguably two of the best looking games on the PlayStation 2, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater were so visually impressive the first time around it was difficult to spot what had changed in the transition to Sony’s Vita handheld.